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Thursday, November 20, 2008

No, not that picture!

It happened a few weeks ago, while I was in Cornwall, Ontario. I was working in my hotel room on a Saturday afternoon, when the housekeeping lady knocked at the door.

“Come in”, I said, as I was just using the desk (and I was fully clothed). She did, and started to clean up. Suddenly, she noticed the beautiful picture of Paradise Lake that I had as a wallpaper (a picture that it’s featured in my SW Ontario Museum blog). So she said: “That looks like a beautiful place”.

“This one?”, I replied, turning to her. “Yes, it’s one of my favourite pictures”, I continued, pointing at my monitor while still looking at her.

I was about to start telling her where Paradise Lake was, when I noticed that my screensaver had kicked in by then. I have a company screen saver that displays some medical images, showing how our software post-processes them and allows the radiologists to see things that they couldn’t before. The first image (the one I was actually pointing at) was a Mammography image, something like this:

I quickly explained to the surprised lady where I work and what’s my work about, and then made sure that she saw all the other medical images (a chest X-ray, a foot…), so she could verify that I don’t have only boob pictures on my computer.